Ultraviolet solar irradiance measurement from 200 to 358 nm during spacelab 1 mission

✍ Scribed by D. Labs; H. Neckel; P. C. Simon; G. Thuillier

• Book ID: 104644314
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 874 KB
• Volume: 107
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0038-0938
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00152019

✦ Synopsis

The paper presents the results obtained from the UV-spectrometer of the 'Solar Spectrum Experiment' during the Spacelab 1 mission in December 1983. The irradiance data concern 492 passbands, which are located between 200 and 358 nm at almost equidistant wavelengths separated by about 0.3 nm. The passbands have a well-defined, bell-shaped profile with a full width at half maximum of about 1.3 nm. The data, which have an error budget between 4 and 5 %, agree closely with the spectral distributions observed by Heath (1980) and Mentall et aL (1981) and confirm that the solar irradiance and the fluxes of Sun-like stars show about the same spectral distribution down to at least 240 nm.